1034 CREPIS. [ CLASS XIX. ORDER f. 
Root tapering. Stem erect, stout, hollow, furrowed, pinkish, from 
three to four feet high, branched above in a corymbose manner, more 
or less rough, with pubescence. Leaves numerous, smooth or rough, 
with pubescence, the radical ones oblong, lanceolate, on longish foot- 
stalks, unequally toothed, those on the lower part of the stem cut into 
narrow entire or toothed lobes in a pinnatifid manner, the upper ones 
linear, somewhat lobed and arrow-shaped at the base, the uppermost 
ones linear, entire. Inflorescence a sub-corymbose many flowered 
panicle. Bracteas small, awl-shaped. Florets lemon-coloured, the 
outer ones crimson at the back. Jmnvolucre of numerous scales, 
downy, the outer ones small, spreading, mostly hispid at the back, 
the inner ones downy, with a smooth membranous margin. Fruit 
smooth, thirteen ribbed, thin, linear, tapering upwards. Pappus 
very white, roughish, silky. 
Habitat —Chalky pastures and clayey soil; Kent, Suffolk, Lincoln- 
shire, &e. ; near Bangor, North Wales. 
Biennial; flowering in June and July. 
3. C. pul'chra, Linn. (Fig. 1213.) Small-flowered Hawk’s-beard. 
Stem leafy, paniculated above; leaves downy, the radical ones ob- 
long, obovate, runcinate, the upper ones lanceolate, toothed, truncated 
at the base, and clasping the stem; panicle naked, spreading ; 
involucre smooth ; fruit linear, slender above, smooth, obscurely ten 
ribbed. 
English Botany, t. 2325.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 372—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 291.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 158. 
Root tapering, the whole plant clothed more or less with soft pu- 
bescence. Stem erect, striated, hollow, from one to two feet high, 
leafy, branched above in a paniculated manner, and spreading. 
Leaves numerous, the radical ones oblong, obovate, more or less 
deeply toothed in a runcinate manner, tapering below into a winged foot. 
stalk, the upper ones lanceolate, truncated at the base, and clasping the 
stem with their acute or obtuse lobes. Inflorescence loose, widely 
spreading panicle. Bracteas small, lanceolate. lowers solitary, 
rather small, bright yellow. Involucre smooth, the outer scales small, 
lax, membranous, soon withering, the inner ones linear, erect, the 
mid-rib becoming hard and prominent. Fruit linear, tapering up 
wards, finely striated with ten ribs. Pappus white, silky, rough. 
Habitat.—Crumbling rocks on the hill of Turin, near Forfar, 
Scotland. 
Annual; flowering in September. 
4. CO. succise'folia, Tausch. (Fig. 1214.) Succory-leaved Hawk's- 
beard. Stem tall, corymbose above; leaves oblong, obtuse, obsoletely 
toothed, nearly smooth, the radical ones attenuated into a long foot- 
stalk, the upper ones sessile, amplexicaul ; peduncles and involucre 
with glandular pubescence; involucre scales lanceolate, acute, the 
